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DCP-LETT-768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1–29 Aug 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 15
Summary:

Encloses Ehrenberg letter, Galapagos seaweed, and specimens of Conferva.

H. Denny would like specimens of Antarctic Pediculi.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel14377

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0520.9; Reel 1093
Summary:

Informed A. T. Kupffer that JH will preside at 1845 B.A.A.S. meeting and invited Kupffer to attend. Activities of [James] Renwick and A. D. Bache in trigonometrical survey of U.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1600

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Miss Plummer
Date:
1 August 1844
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12647

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Baldwin
Date:
1844-8
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0067.2; Reel 1054
Summary:

Suggestions for travel [to Collingwood] by railroad and coach.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10171

From:
John Henry Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.58
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's offer of assistance and proposes to visit him next Wednesday. Congratulations on the addition to his family.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9494

From:
William Henry Fitton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.239
Summary:

One of the sections of the beds below the chalk, which JH sent him in 1834, has become the subject of interesting discussion viz the Neocomian beds and their appearance in the British Isles. Comments on the various theories regarding these beds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1600a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Boughton Hack
Date:
3 August 1844
Source of text:
LMA Acc 2558/MW/C/15/62/3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-226

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
4 August 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9537/2/7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday1601

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Manby
Date:
5 August 1844
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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KEMP56

From:
Thomas Walker
To:
William Kemp
Date:
8 Aug 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/36)
Summary:

Hopes WK will come soon to Fife.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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WCP6332

From:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's brother]
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
8 August 1844
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/10
Summary:

His new lodgings and hope for work; asking after friends in Hertford; wishing her a pleasant voyage and advising her to get some creosote for toothache.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-44-08-09

From:
[...] Nolte
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 August 1844
Source of text:
RB MSS M103, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel10820

From:
Edward Craven Hawtrey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.172
Summary:

Enjoying the beautiful scenery, but the weather has not been good. Many thanks for the beautiful translation of Frederick Schiller. Has he added anything to his photographic discoveries? Saw some calographic pictures at Charles Wheatstone's, which improved on the Daguerreotype.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0312

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Mr Wren
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13a/53, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Adolphe Morlot (Adolph von Morlot)
Date:
9 Aug [1844]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:

Declines to undertake to have AM’s journal published but recommends possible publishers in England.

Expresses scepticism about AM’s glacier theory. Emphasises role of floating ice instead. Mentions article by William Hopkins on movement of glaciers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9595

From:
Thomas I. M. Forster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.336
Summary:

Hopes he will look out for the periodical meteors and give him his observations. Has seen some curious falling stars. Is constructing a new anemometer and used it to detect surging gales. Visited a monastery yesterday to see a new instrument for perpetual motion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8307

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[11 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.113
Summary:

Parcel arrived safely. Will examine it with interest.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-770

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
12 Aug [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Can hardly believe he made a mistake in specimens sent to HD. Recopies numbers in case he transposed them. [Has to do with lice taken from a specimen of aperea and put into spirits during Beagle voyage.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1602

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Date:
13 August 1844
Source of text:
BrUL MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3425

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.89
Summary:

Expresses the ill Francis Baily's appreciation for JH's letter. Writes of suffering of Baily and distress of Miss Baily [his sister].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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